Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

Business planning. To start your business, you’ll need a sound business plan. But here at Bplans, we make an effort to provide entrepreneurs with the resources they need to start and run successful businesses. Business Model Generation. Product development. Founders Workbench.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Customer Development by Vertical - Click to Enlarge (As a reminder, the Customer Development process says your business plan is just a series of untested hypothesis (unless you’re a domain expert.) You take your product vision and get out of your building to turn your hypothesis into facts. Technology?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Entrepreneurs put together their funding presentation by extracting the key ideas from their business plan, putting them on PowerPoint/Keynote and pitching the company – until they get funded or exhausted.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

First, through featuring these insights across the company's various marketing platforms - in its marketing and sales collateral, its white papers and case studies, in its email newsletter, and potentially in the its tag line and logo.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Its amazing how fast this happens, especially in companies with short product development cycles in non-medical industries. Its amazing how fast this happens, especially in companies with short product development cycles in non-medical industries. Can they take our product to a new group of customers? April 2013.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 24, 2006

Last night, Bob Zieserl, Venture Capitalist, and general partner at Stratus Ventures, was the keynote speaker at the Marquette University Business Plan Competition. A clear point of view on how the business will achieve significant increases in value.) The product development cycle was excellent. Enter your Email.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. I think Drucker said it best. Any thoughts?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

Then, on the expense side, I’d like to begin to understand how the growth in the business will drive costs as complexity increases. Growth involves, in many businesses, more customer service, product development, support, marketing and so forth – in addition to more R&D. Signup for email updates. April 2013.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think. The problem is that customers dont read your business plan. You have to know your business model. Gattiker said.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

I tried all sorts of tactics to convert my free users: More upgrade prompts Less features on free accounts Premium features for 15 days More emails aimed at upselling users to paid None of these changes had a significant impact. Rob, frankly I’m surprised you’re endorsing this business model. #5 5 Ben K on 08.18.10

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Up and Running

JANUARY 17, 2014

The ideas behind lean startups can be drilled down to a few straightforward ideas: Deploy resources stringently, incrementally proving out the assumptions that drive your business model. Revise your product or service as quickly as possible. Revising and re-launching the product. Deploying resources stringently.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

The knowledge that you need 10,000 hours to master a subject, that certain trends become viral after the 412th person adopts it, or that you should make your product remarkable, is not going to help you launch. Nor will it save you a single minute during product development, or sell one more copy of your application.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

The startup beauty brand, created as an offshoot of Founder Emily Weiss’ popular blog “ Into the Gloss ” created, released and marketed seven new products in 2017 (that is more than one every other month!), One Wisdom: In so many market spaces, speed of product development, deployment, and marketing is the key success factor.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Updated Business tools for Startups. Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Email Integration. Email marketing. Sendgrid : Need to send email out to users? They make sure that your emails never to go spam folders.

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